City meet boss’s expectations

MANCHESTER City manager Manuel Pellegrini was delighted the Blues met all his pre–match expectations against Newcastle United last night.

City opened their Barclays Premier League campaign with a 4–0 win over the 10–man Magpies, who had Steven Taylor sent off for striking Sergio Aguero on the head at the end of the first half.

“The most important thing always is to win but afterwards, it is the way we did it,” he Pellegrini.

“It was a very good start. I was very confident the team would play well because we worked very hard during pre–season.

“We are trying another style of football and maybe we can continue improving every week; but for the first match we did it very well.”

David Silva opened the scoring with a header after just six minutes.

Sergio Aguero added another before the break, then Yaya Toure and Samir Nasri wrapped up an easy win in the second–half.

As starts to the season go, it would have been perfect but for the groin injury that forced off skipper Vincent Kompany